For me, someone raised in the segregated South, having attended segregated schools, a segregated church, and living in a segregated neighborhood, his sermon to America was a clarion call to commitment and action in support of a cause that was demanded both by our founding documents and, more importantly, by the Gospel proclaimed in the New Testament.
During the 60s and 70s the US put trillions of dollars into such programs as Urban Renewal and Model Cities. Programs that basically kept Blacks and other people of color as well other urban poor on intercity reservations. Reservations for the Blacks, Browns, the poor and the despised. What should have occurred with foresight and courage was the relocation of as many people from those intercity reservations to more sustainable and affluent communities. Communities in which the relocated families after a generation or less would have seen their cycles of poverty ended.
For me, someone raised in the segregated South, having attended segregated schools, a segregated church, and living in a segregated neighborhood, his sermon to America was a clarion call to commitment and action in support of a cause that was demanded both by our founding documents and, more importantly, by the Gospel proclaimed in the New Testament.